Example sentences of "[is] [adv] some [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is all some sort of joke , is n't it ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ There 's obviously some kind of misunderstanding here . |
| 3 | So she said oh about three people who 've had that , she said you have something to eat and you get pains and it 's obviously some sort of virus going round . |
| 4 | ‘ I expect it 's all some sort of misunderstanding . |
| 5 | Like other Pseudocrenilabrus , males have an orange tip to the anal fin , which is apparently some sort of egg dummy , akin the anal ocelli in most haplochromines . |
| 6 | There is obviously some confusion between father and son here , but no doubt it will be satisfactorily settled before too long . |
| 7 | If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky . |
| 8 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 9 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 10 | ‘ What I 'm aiming at , ’ says Howard , ‘ is not some kind of thing where everybody is , you know , just sort of happy and sort of contented sort of thing all the time … ’ |
| 11 | As US Ambassador to the UN , Thomas Pickering , so brusquely proclaimed : ‘ The issue at hand is not some difference of opinion and approach that can be mediated or negotiated . ’ |
| 12 | The US ambassador to the UN , Thomas Pickering , has claimed that ‘ the matter is not some difference of opinion or approach that can be mediated or negotiated . ’ |
| 13 | It would be unreasonable to expect easy co-operative motion along the entire polymer chain , but as there is normally some degree of flexibility in the chain , local segmental motion can take place more readily . |
| 14 | Stateless societies are for the most part small tribal societies , without any complex division of labour and economically poor , but some features of their political systems may perhaps also be found in other types of society , especially in village communities such as those of medieval Germany , or of India ( where they were once described as ‘ little republics ’ ) , although in these instances there is already some degree of subordination to a state , however remote , and some element of stratification and inequality of power in the local community itself . |
| 15 | But there is usually some semblance of coherence to the proceedings , and a proper hook to draw us on . |
| 16 | There is usually some generality of access to at least some of the techniques involved in the first three types . |
| 17 | In any real system there is always some lack of exactitude in one 's knowledge of initial conditions . |
| 18 | Their name derives from the most formal way of saying ‘ you ’ in Japanese , the implication being that there is always some kind of barrier between people . |
| 19 | However , in practice there is always some degree of error , which increases if the text is printed at an angle , or characters overlap , or an unknown font is used , and so on . |
| 20 | Economists sometimes liken the abstraction to the use of frictionless motion as an ideal model of a world where there is always some degree of friction . |
| 21 | Solitude is always some sort of choice . |
| 22 | There is always some potential for opposition and change ; this comes to a climax in periods of revolutionary social transformation . |
| 23 | There 's usually some sort of scene in the morning . |
| 24 | This grows less but there is still some sense of unease ; besides , many old women miss the company of men for social occasions . |
| 25 | There is still some water in storage but it can not be pumped out without this effect on the environment . |
| 26 | well — there is still some kind of hope ( NOT ! i guess ) — but i still ca n't see why he was not even given at least a whole second-half this season . |
| 27 | Although , at this stage , there is still some mismatch between policy and practice since the research findings revealed that some children do not yet have access to an effective modern language curriculum . |
| 28 | Take all the obscenity trials from Madame Bovary to Lady Chatterley 's Lover there 's always some element of games-playing , of compliance , in the defence . |
| 29 | ‘ They have those dozens of cousins and aunts and there 's always some sort of crisis going on . ’ |
| 30 | Dr ‘ Macmillan ’ The satisfaction is derived from the whole purpose of the job which is to make people better in all senses … there 's still some sort of fascination in trying to work out people 's problems and deal with them . |